Fatemeh Moafian

Dr. Fatemeh Moafian holds a PhD in TEFL. She has extensive experience in English language teaching, teacher education, and applied linguistics research. She has published numerous research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals, including Frontiers in Psychology, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, System, ELT Journal, and Asian EFL Journal. She has also coauthored two academic books and recently authored Teaching English Effectively: Three Pillars of Pronunciation, Vocabulary, and Grammar.

Her work particularly focuses on the psychological, cognitive, interactional, and pedagogical factors that contribute to effective language teaching and learning.

She is currently an Assistant Professor at Kosar University of Bojnord, Iran, and will join the University of the Basque Country (EHU) as a postdoctoral researcher in September 2026. Her two-year postdoctoral research at EHU, supported by the European Union – HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF-01-01. Marie Sklodwska-Curie Actions- and supervised by Prof. María del Pilar García Mayo, will focus on the role of task-enhanced peer interaction in promoting morphosyntactic development among young learners of English as a foreign language, drawing on a cognitive-interactionist perspective.